Dr Dimitrios Papageorgiou

Dimitrios Papageorgiou

Senior Lecturer in Materials Science

School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/staff/d.papageorgiou/
Centre for Sustainable Engineering
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Research

Natural Polymers, Polymer Engineering, Sustainable Nanocomposites, Functional Composites, 2D Materials, Strain Engineering

Interests

- Processing and characterization of advanced, multifunctional composites based on 2D materials such as graphene, 1D materials such as carbon nanotubes and advanced fiber reinforcements.

- Preparation and physicochemical characterization of bio-based polymers and composites.

- All aspects of the relationship between the structure and mechanical properties of polymers and composites.

- Application of strain engineering for tuning the mechanical, electronic and photonic properties of 2D materials-based devices and nanocomposites.

- Development of micromechanical theories for modelling the behaviour and understanding the reinforcement mechanisms in polymer nanocomposites.

- Analysis of the deformation behaviour of nanomaterials and nanocomposites using Raman Spectroscopy.